Who are you, and who is the other? The things we don’t like in others, because that person is different. The weather we like, the weather we dislike. The thoughts we like, the thoughts we dislike. The known in the …

When a sculptor creates a sculpture, he removes stone to create it, he chips away and shapes it. He doesn’t add to it. The best way to uncover potential is to keep removing the stone. The act of removal is …

How many times have you heard this term? It’s great in hindsight! The should’s and shouldn’t haves. Those two terms are so destructive to personal development. It implies a level of judgement past tense, and the past is already gone. …

We each have roughly 50,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day, being 35 – 48 thoughts each minute per person. Some research suggests 98 percent of those thoughts are the same ones we experienced yesterday. Such is the circular nature of …

Athletes spend a lot of time trying to understand. The problem is that they try to understand too much, in their exuberance they read too much. They put too much enthusiasm into the researching, and not enough into the actual …

Sports psychologists often talk about arousal levels, and the effect arousal has on the nervous system. Levels of apathy or anxiety brought on by not enough, or too much mental projection. Then often a cognitive thought based practise is …

What is the source of society’s anxiety, individuality or difference of ideology? Societies absolute terror of individuality. There is much more to society than manicured lawns, clean cars, and wearing the same clothes as everyone else to keep up with …

I’ve had a few people ask me lately how I ended up dipping my toe in mindfulness, psychology, and mental skills training; instead of sticking to triathlon. I’m not a fan of any of those words. I find words a …

Pain is Subjective I often listen to athletes talking about their level of pain that builds up during a race, and they often ask what they can do about it. We seem to feel that any physical symptom that arises …

If there is one race that requires superior mental strength it is the hell of the north. So what of the riders that face this hell? Their efforts look almost super human. Their mental conditioning is different to yours. Why? …